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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Zentangle® Central has announced a new fun tangle - "Bunzo" ... and Diva Laura has challenged us to use it in this week's Zentangle or ZIA. This pattern is so fun!Although this has been an unusually busy week, I did steal some time to give this new pattern a try. Being intrigued by the snail-like Bunzo design that Maria created on her tile, I made an attempt to draw a Bunzo variation in a spiral string. Sheez... it was not easy!!! (for me). As soon as I understand how to move the Bunzo lines around so that their relationship (to one another) gives the illusion of movement, I will feel more confident. Drawing this tangle is like dancing... and tapping your toe to the beat of the music. Cha-cha-cha!

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

This is a repeat of a challenge we did in May 2011 - and Diva Laura says, "...the challenge is to create a tile or Zentangle®inspired art using Stripes as
your string." The "Stripes" theme has no particular significance - just a fun way to try to squish different tangle designs into a long, narrow string. Now, there's the fun!! I had all good intentions of penning something..... unusual...... with this challenge. But, alas, a ho-hum ZIA was birthed. And, as the Zentangle® folks say, 'it is the process that is important'. This was definitely a good theme for 'process'.The piece perked-up a bit after adding color. (Sorta like a push-up bra perks-up a drab, low cut, ho-hum dress!)

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

This is a lovely challenge! Diva Laura has challenge instructions, photos and a short story about the Beads of Courage on her website. Beads of Courage Program website is http://www.beadsofcourage.org/pages/beadsofcourage.htm.Several years ago, the polymer clay guild I belonged to created beads for this program. It was one of the most rewarding polymer clay projects I have participated in. (The other polymer clay program that has captured my muse is Bottles of Hope.) I must admit that my polymer clay has collected lots of dust on the shelf since I found Zentangle®.

Friday, October 12, 2012

Using a string to guide in the placement of tangles (within a Zentangle®) is one of the most unique and clever aspects of the Zentangle® Method of Art. Dots, lines, string, breathe, focus, pen line, repeat pen line...... and so on. Diva Laura explains this week's challenge and offers her beautiful Zentangle® as an example of String Theory v.8.

There is truly no BPS (blank page syndrome) when your string is already created on a pre-strung tile - or when someone else has accomplished the task of string-drawing for you! Really did love the theme of this Challenge. Totally zenned-out.

Saturday, October 6, 2012

This week's Challenge is a UMT created by Maria Vennekens, CZT, from the Netherlands. The Diva's challenge and Maria's breakout instructions of Sankegg are here.This was the most difficult/challenging tangle for me to draw (of all the Diva's 89 weekly challenges). I am still struggling with the concept of drawing Sankegg. Drawing a single row of the tangle was as far as I could go before my work turned into..... alien pen lines! And today is Saturday... so my options were: either post it now or forfeit! So, here it is. I don't usually give a title to my Weekly Challenges, but after I finished the tangle and did the shading, I held it at arms length for a final review and appreciation. That is when I started to laugh so hard that I cried.... and decided to name this piece of art "Gabrielle" ***My final ZIA design was truly a surprise. I don't know WHAT I was thinking!!